新编英语教程6词汇总.docVIP

Book 6 考察之词汇 Unit 1 Two words to Avoid, Two to Remember insight: the capacity to gain an accurate and deep instinctive understanding of a situation checkered tablecloth: table cloth that has a pattern consisting of alternating squares of different colors chew the cud: think reflectively gnome: (in legends) a little old man who lives underground and guards the earth’s treasures; a small ugly person melancholy: sad; gloomy; depressed berate: scold or criticize angrily a perverse streak: an obstinate quality ruefully: regretfully drag: a boring thing; nuisance immortality: never-ending life or endless fame Unit 2 The Fine Art of Putting Things Off 1. cool one’s heels: be forced to wait; be kept waiting 2. attest to: testify to; serve as an evidence to affirm/to be proof of 3. apocalyptic: foreboding imminent disaster or final doom 4. proconsul: an administrator in a colony usually with wide powers 5. ruminate: go over in the mind repeatedly and often slowly 6. nattering: chattering; hence, noisy 7. echelon: rank, level 8. fortify: encourage; support 9. reappraisal: re-evaluation 10.academe: the academic community; academics 11.shrink psychoanalyst or psychiatrist 12. subliminal: subconscious; existing or functioning outside the area of conscious awareness 13.truism: an undoubted or self-evident truth 14.mellow and marinate: to mellow is to become ripe or fully developed, and to marinate is to steep(meat, fish) in a savory sauce to enrich its flavor; here, ripen and mature Unit 4 A Red Light for Scofflaws 1. take liberties with: misinterpret; distort; violate 2. blithely: heedlessly; without thought or regard 3. dereliction: deliberate neglect; negligence 4. exempt from: free from; not subject to an obligation 5. flurry: profusion; abundance; great quantity 6. ordinance: authoritative law; command 7. flagrant: shameless; notorious 8. festering scandal: tormenting disgrace 9. statutes: laws 10. public nuisance: something offensive or annoying to the community, es